"Underlying hatred, underlying any cruel act or word, underlying all dehumanizing, there is always fear - the utter groundlessness of fear.

This fear has a soft spot. It hasn't frozen yet into a solid position.

However much we don't like it, fear doesn't have to give birth to aggression or the desire to harm ourselves or others.

When we feel fear or anxiety or any groundless feeling, or when we realize that the fear is already hooking us into I'm going to get even” or I have to go back to my addiction to escape this,” then we can regard the moment as neutral, a moment that can go either way."

" Once, during Prohibition, I was forced to live for days on nothing but food and water."

Addiction = a personal behavior which
is considered to become a health disorder when it damages or interrupts one's ability to perform one's normal tasks.

All addictions are
exploitive. Addictions produce the perception of
short-term pleasure followed by a cycle of victimization (6) powerlessness (6) and shame (6).

Almost any behavior can become exploitive (6) and addictive.

Any behavior that creates emotional intensity (whether positive or negative) can become compulsively repetitive and any desire can become insatiable.

Any human behavior has the potential to force abandonment (Ketu) one's normal, culturally-approved life task routines (Shani) within marriage, family, profession,
et-cetera. in pursuit of an obsessive (Rahu) pleasure (Zukra).

The most obvious addictions involve amplified sense-pleasures such as sexual gratification, oral pleasures of food and drink, and nerve pleasures such as numbing drugs and other brain-chemistry alterations. However one may also become addicted to gambling, to extracting bribes and illegal payments, to shop-lifting, to marital argument, to criticizing and belittling others, and a hundred other dysfunctional attempts to make oneself feel better by

Unfortunately, addictions are insatiable; therefore
Zukra's ultimate pleasures of satisfaction, harmony, balance, completion through union
et-cetera are rarely realized when one suffers from addiction. In addition one falls victim to social criticism for the crime of exiting normalcy.

Zukra = karaka for all pleasures including addictive pleasures, and
Zukra is the lord of Sugar.

Professor Zukra specializes in a wide range of subjects
linked to pleasures of the senses and the experience of
matched balance. One of the subjects upon which He
teaches is the doctrine of sexual pleasure,
numbing drugs and delirium of alcohol . If Zukra is disturbed
or over-empowered in relation to the other graha, His
curriculum can be so ambitious that the native may be
encouraged to over-do the natural pleasures which can result in
syndromes of sex addiction, drug addiction, and alcoholism.

In any bhava,
Zukra-yuti-Rahu or
Zukra-yuti-Ketu may provide some
experience of obsessive-compulsive (Rahu) or
boundary-dissolving (Ketu) sensual behavior. Addictive tendencies are enhanced but not assured
when Professor Zukra is either amplified by Rahu or
when concern with consequences is dissolved (Ketu).

Zukra-yuti-Rahu
is a particular flag for potentially addictive
entitlements. Professor Rahu has a powerful sense of entitlement to
sense-pleasure coupled with an ambitious love of
boundary-challenging extremes. Addictive substances
favored by Professor Rahu when He couples with
Zukra may include beautiful women, exquisite music,
fine art, precious wines, magnificent diamonds, and
other artifacts of Zukra.

INVOLUNTARY ESCAPES

Living Beautifully with Uncertainty and Change

by Pema Chödrön, p. 31

"Many of our escapes are involuntary: addiction and dissociating from painful feelings are two examples.

Anyone who has worked with a strong addiction - compulsive eating, compulsive sex, abuse of substances, explosive anger, or any other behavior that's out of control - knows that when the urge comes on it's irresistible.

The seduction is too strong. So we train again and again in less highly charged situations in which the urge is present but not so overwhelming.

By training with everyday irritations, we develop the knack of refraining when the going gets rough.

It takes patience and an understanding of how we're hurting ourselves not to continue taking the same old escape route of speaking or acting out."

When Professor Zukra establishes His classroom in the
inherently imbalanced, remedy-seeking bhava-6, drug addiction and sexual exploitation can involve the
Zukra's instructions with in underworld environments
(6) of decadence, poverty and crime. If Professor Budha is also
residing in or casting drishti into bhava-6, the
imbalance-seeking-a-remedy environment may feature lying and involvement with criminal
finance such as predatory loan-making and sale of
illicit substances.

An otherwise wonderful uttama-Zukra in the satkona may
produce financial treasures, external beauty, and artistic talent.
Yet in addition, a potential exists to discover a
profound underlying alcoholism or other pleasure
addiction. The addictive behaviors often attract
substances of delicate and exquisite characteristics
such as fine wines, beautiful lovers, and delicate
perfumes; however the relationship to these items is
addictive.

Cleopatra 1932-2011 AIDS activistElizabeth Taylor was a stunningly beautiful much-divorced philanthropist minister to the ostracized AIDS victims. She demonstrated all the plusses-and-minusses of Zukra-yuti-Rahu in bhava-6. Ms. Taylor demonstrated the classic craving (Rahu-Zukra) for the luxurious, the addictively sweet, the treasonous, the illegal and the polluted. Yet her randhresha-8 uttama Zukra in bhava-6 enjoyed a powerfully protective Viparita Raja yoga"Sarala"a nd she was able to endure the constant pain of scoliosis and all the vicissitudes of addiction with a sense of humor. Her luxury businesses flourished due to her iconic reputation as a women who understood sensual excess (rogesha-6 uttama-Guru-10) and her immorality was exceeded only by her charity.

Unlike bhava-6, matters of vyaya bhava are not always criminal, rough, or enslaved to the 'chandala' classes.

There can be addiction to private sensuality such as extramarital affairs, a lifelong unrequited love, self-pleasuring fantasies. Bhava-6 involves the exploitation of commercial trafficking, but bhava-12 is by nature private, personal, and enclosed Bhava-12 connotes the gracious alcoholic housewife, the artist or meditation student who needs alcohol or marijuana to achieve their intuitive state, or the otherwise pleasant person who increasingly needs a fuzzy, numbing chemical shield around them in order to keep things "sweet" in their inner terrain.

Unlike the unsavory implications of a
Zukra accepting malefic drishti in bhava-6, drug planets in bhava-12 usually indicate nice people with no connection to crime.

Zukra can cause addictions in any bhava.

The stronger Zukra's influence in radix or navamsha, the stronger potential for compulsive sensual behaviors.

beautiful young female alcoholic, destroyed by party drugs and red-wine Venus.

Perhaps not surprisingly, uttama-Zukra in almost any location may become a karaka for pleasure-addictions.
Uttama-Zukra gains even more strength in kendra, in particular the first and 10th angles from radix lagna or from the Moon.

The super-strong
Zukra may yield remarkable artistic talent and constructive output. Yet when associated with
indulgent graha such as "rationalizing" (in the negative sense) nichha-Budha or the dreamlike Meena Chandra , uttama-Zukra can easily produce a very gifted alcoholic who follows a long downward path toward addiction and decline.

As the notorious daityaguru,
Zukra is capable of diverting one's artistic genius from creative production into a deadening, sugary entropy. There may be a clinical addiction to sweet foods (including most carbohydrate foods) which matures into an alcohol problem.

uttama-Zukra + Chandra, when either = lord of a
dusthamsha, can produce obesity and alcoholism. the native pursues excessive, emotionally-driven self-nourishment and addictive eating in search of sensual satiation through foods. (Typically accompanied by problems with a beautiful and artistic but materialistic and malnourishing mother.)

Zukra in bhava-6 or Zukra in
6th-from-Chandra can produce a physical level of sensual addiction that causes or is associated with with workplace, exploitation, servitude, loss of equality, disease, debt, and arguments. The addictions will be associated with criminal law,
abuse of medical services, police action, warfare, and the inner argumentation of the victim script mentality.

Zukra's rashi will describe the nature of the addictive substances or behaviors.

Zukra-Vrizava is the karaka for the family history, banking, and stored values. When a strong benefic falls into the
mahadusthamsha, the result can only be profligacy, degeneration, and poverty caused by overspending on sensual addictions.

Addiction to wine, women, and song. Or at least, wine. Luxurious sensual experiences of all kind are sought in unsavory environments full of fighting, exploitation, and disease. the native overspends on luxuries, leaving the pocketbook empty when time comes to pay the rent.

Delights in massages, sexual entertainments, seductive music and scents, the company of docile ladies. Associated with prostitution and alcohol addiction, although on one's downward spiral one will be high bred, gentle, and kind.. One will spend the family accounts, down to the last drop.

Addiction to theatrical glamour in the world of exploitation, drugs, and crime.

Gets flattery and praise from domestic animals, employees and servants.

Enjoys the attentions of those in a service role, such
as those laboring in the workplace. For Zukra-6-Simha,
the workplace is typically oriented to entertainment and
politics.

Ave Maria 1935-2007 tenorLuciano Pavarotti enjoyed a
reputation for profligacy in particular with the
ladies who served in musical-drama productions, such
as the cosmetic, costume, lighting, and other
theatrical service providers.

Old Path White Clouds 1926-Thich Nhat Hanh
* nichha-Zukra-yuti-Surya
* gracious brightness * Zukra-6 parivartamsha
Budha-7. A long-lived Buddhist monk and relentless peace activist,
author of more than 100 books and leader of an international community
under doctrine of "Engaged Buddhism". Thien Su Thay approached the situation of suffering from a classic Buddhist
perspective. He suffered personal injustice (being exiled from his
country for 39 years, for example) and personal grief, but used these
experiences to promote social justice. The remarkable turnaround from
Zukra-6-nichha default addictions and self-enslavement occurs due to Zukra-6
parivartamsha
Budha-7

Benefic graha in a malefic bhava gives serious trouble, usually through lack of common sense about the evil side of human nature.
Zukra is strong and relationship-oriented in Thula.

For Zukra-Thula-6 the love of sweet, easy balance in the bhava of servitude spells addiction to sentimentality, sweet
deals, being nice, and superficial solutions to deep problems like making a living and paying back debts.

Zukra-Thula-6 = persistently foolhardy in trusting the wrong people with one's affections. One is comfortable with and attracted to the underclass "victimology". One spends a lifetime trying
to sweeten this bitter bhava with promises of love to those who only intend to exploit.

For example, the prostitute who falls in love with her clients, or the client who falls in love with the prostitute. Or the nurse who falls in love with the junkie, or the junkie who falls in love with the drug dealer.

Usually fair-complected, and attractive in countenance. Yet, found loitering in unsavory venues due to one's attraction to the victim class.
Potential STD infection. Yet, Zukra-Thula-6 never surrenders the belief that sentimental love is the best medicine.

If with Rahu, a fascination with criminal worlds, and much power gained via dealing with the agents of invasive surgeries, biological weapons, or war.

Attraction
* akarshana * to the criminal element, to animals and servants, to the psychology of out castes and those who live in dark places.

Zukra-6-Vrizchika apprehends oneself as a healer of the fallen. Falls in love with criminals, master-slaves, and military-police.

Very deceptive placement which leaves the native exposed to venereal diseases. May be a good position for undercover work on the vice squad, but one tends to be seduced into the evil world rather than helping to clean it up.

Pleasure derived from religious belief may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.
Attraction to exploitation, mistreatment, illness, injury, inequity finds an
ideological framework.

POTUS-pair-16 Illinois 1818-1882Mary Todd Lincoln + Budha +
Guru-yuti-Surya.
From a family that got-rich-quick via corrupt land deals (bandesha-4 in
6) and most importantly via slavery, Mary
decided to oppose slavery on religious grounds thus violently
alienating her wealthy family. She was punished with the loss of the
luxuries that normally supported a woman of her social class, such as
house servants and doctors.

One believes in the great upliftment (Dhanushya) of the underclass, only to be seduced into its negative argumentation and the science of
victimology.

Although one may love a partner who hails from a different cultural belief system, conflict
within the paradigm of belief may disturb one's inner harmony and may degrade the unity of the partnership.

POTUS-pair-16 Illinois 1818-1882Mary Todd Lincoln + Budha +
Guru-yuti-Surya
had a large Dhanushya cluster in bhava-6 where the rulers of seven bhava
can be found in the environment of conflict, illness, addiction,
accusation, exploitation, injury, and crime. She lived a global-scale
life (Dhanushya) during her husband's Civil War presidency. Her social
behavior was adjudged as both brilliant and horrible (mainly the
latter). She was remanded to an insane asylum (but escaped) and she was
addicted to the commonly prescribed
pain-killers of the day which were primarily mixtures of opiates
with alcohol. In particular, unknowing physicians of her era addicted
her and millions like her to the compound called
laudanum.

Pleasure derived from clandestine relationships and activities in sanctuary may may result in marital disagreement, even divorce.

One may succumb to temptation to sell one's talent or beauty in trade for addictive substances.

For one in the husband role, indicates that the wife however beautiful is also one's enemy. Betrayal through her beauty. For one in the wife role, beware of female friends and relatives who are as lovely as oneself, yet through jealousy may cause disruption of one's marital harmony.

In advanced nativities, a deep aesthetic pleasure via service in dreamlike environments which support private prayer, reflective thought, and imagistic immersion.

Zukra in bhava-12 suggests an astral or imaginative level of sensual addiction that functions as an 'escape' mode.

Loves sensual relationships that are conducted in private, in spaces such as sanctuaries, caves, foreign lands, or the bed-chamber. Vyaya bhava addictions originate in the private imagination, and usually do not involve a breakdown of the social contract. However these addictions do eventually erode the social identity, so that the native fades into obscurity through the entropy of the addiction.

Zukra in bhava-12 being 6th-from-7th (public alliance) a husband may be addicted to private, hidden relationships with women who are naturally playing the role of 'enemy of the public marriage'.

Despite his splendid talents and a prodigious
literary output, Sound and Fury 1897-1962William Faulkner
* Somana-yuti-Zukra-12 was reputed to have been highly promiscuous and a career alcoholic. His wife was also an addicted drinker.

A woman may be addicted to sensual pleasures (persons, hobbies, or behaviors) which cause animosity within her marriage.

UK-Duchess 1947-Camilla of Cornwallwas famously involved with her "Dark Prince" for many years, causing animosity within both public marriages

Chandra-yuti-Zukra often exhibits a self-medicating, self-numbing
tendency that can be associated with addictions to food, alcohol, drugs, or
other behaviors that are calming (Chandra) and sweet (Zukra)

POTUS-pair-37 Watergate 1912-1993Pat Ryan Nixon
chain-smoked cigarettes throughout life as a stress-calmer

POTUS-pair-38 Addiction Recovery 1918-2011 Betty Ford
developed a severe addiction to painkillers and alcohol; due to a noble
parivartamsha between her
Chandra-yuti-Zukra and Shani-9, this addiction was (after several
decades of addictive disorder) promoted into a high-level ministry of
service via the development of a women-centered addictions clinic. Shani
takes a long time.

Zukra-yuti-Rahu
while Zukra in bhava-6* may amplify the permissive and pleasure-seeking
behaviors while also magnifying the narrative of broken trust (6) disease + injury (6)
accompanied by disagreement, victimization or servitude.

Ring of Fire 1932-2003 rockabillyJohnny Cash * uttama-Zukra-10 yuti Rahu. Their music catered to a religiously conservative audience who criticized divorce as a moral failure, and reviled extramarital passions as the work of the devil. Yet the very-married Cash and his equally-very-married, religiously devout fellow singer June Carter conducted a high-tension affair which culminated in two divorces-with-children, and his asking, during a public musical performance, on stage, for her hand in marriage. Zukra-Rahu-10 is very visible in its pairings and Rahu brings the tantalizingly forbidden directly into the public eye. The audience was delighted.

Zukra-Vrizava, Thula, or Meena

When
Zukra enjoys strength by rashi, and Zukra is either amplified or boundary-dissolved by Rahu-Ketu, effects may be dramatic.

POTUS-29 Teapot Dome 1865-1923Warren G. Harding was a notorious philanderer but also well-liked by women for his support of women's rights. He was a primary advocate for women's right to vote. Nevertheless his presidency was nearly destroyed by a blackmail threat from a jilted former lover
and mother of his love-child. Harding's wife was an ambitious divorcee which was also a taboo-breaker in those prudish days.

POTUS-pair-32 Learn by Living 1884-1962Eleanor Roosevelt like Harding, Mrs. Roosevelt was a staunch supporter of women's rights and a primary figure in the successful passage of the laws which guarantee women political - but not economic (yet) equality in the USA. Her husband's liaisons as well as her own romantic relationships with women were legendary.